Re: Message Board

["Travis Hartnett" <travishartnett@gmail.com>]

Who's going to pay for the bandwidth and take the time to set up and
administer this service?

TravisH

On 4/25/06, Krispen Hartung <khartung@cableone.net> wrote:
> Matthew, your list below is on the money. We shouldn't have to justify 
>the
> value of a web-based forum. That's been done already. The question is
> whether the group, and more importantly the moderator/creator sees this 
>same
> value.
>
> Why don't we setup a poll of some sort? Let the masses decide.
>
> Kris
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <Matthew.Quinn@sunlife.com>
> To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2006 1:00 PM
> Subject: Re: Message Board
>
>
> > Man, that message might be the best arguement for a board- if I were to
> > respond to each point individually, it just becomes a hideous mess of
> > "quotes" and "responses".
> >
> > It's nice on a message board when each quote is in a shaded little box
> > with
> > different colored text, thus making it easy to skim down a thread &
> > determine who said what. But a couple quick rebuttals:
> >
> > 1) Every thread on every message board has a web address. When I want 
>to
> > archive a specific thread, I simply save the web address in a Notepad.
> >
> > 2) Your response about where to keep files is a web page? LOL- isn't 
>that
> > what you are arguing against? How is that a virtue of a mailing list?
> >
> > 3) I don't conside this off-topic. I'm saying, maybe there's a bunch of
> > Red
> > Sox fans on the list. Or Yankees, or Coffee, or whatever- LD stays 
>pretty
> > on point almost all of the time, which is awesome, because I don't 
>need a
> > bunch of emails from Yankee fans mucking up my inbox- but on a board, 
>you
> > can disucc these things with your fellow loopers, and uninterested 
>parties
> > can skip over them.
> >
> > Again, theres no right or wrong here, just preference.......
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >             "Joey"                            To:
> > Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
> >             <tentaclejoe@gmail.com>           cc:
> >             04/25/2006 02:52 PM               Subject:  Re: Message 
>Board
> >             Please respond to
> >             Loopers-Delight
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On 4/25/06, Matthew.Quinn@sunlife.com <Matthew.Quinn@sunlife.com> 
>wrote:
> >
> >> I think some of you frequent the wrong message boards. I've never 
>found
> > the
> >> many active boards that i frequent to be 'clumsy, feature poor, or
> >> inefficient'.
> >
> > One thing I hate about message boards is if you find a very
> > interesting message its a bit of a pain to archive it. Unless you have
> > a save feature on the board you have to cut and paste it into a text
> > editor and save it. Mail lists give you the advantage of archiving
> > interesting posts at the touch of a button or drag into an archive
> > folder.
> >
> >
> >> I mean- let's post some pictures of our setups! Oh wait,
> >> can't do that. Let's post some clips of our work to one central web
> >> location wher everyone can look at everything in one spot! Oh wait, 
>can't
> >> do that.
> >
> > Sure you can - http://www.loopersdelight.com/files/
> >
> > or just get yourself a website - where have you been? :)
> >
> > How about an off topic forum where people who have one thing in
> >> common (looping) can discuss other aspects of the universe we live 
>in- oh
> >> wait, can't do that.....
> >
> > I think that's what we are doing right now :)
> >
> > The only thing wrong in my opinion with the email list format is
> > people who don't know how to edit their replies and include 20 threads
> > or THE ENTIRE DIGEST in their post!!! :)
> >
> > Joey
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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